Story+1976-04-08+Cleveland,+OH

“This one’s for Bobby D (crowd cheers)…”
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, intro to “Night”**

“Goddamn…this one’s for the spirits…”
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, intro to “Spirit in the Night”**

“I used to live in this small town...was about ten thousand people, I guess...I used to live on, like, this main highway…in this two-family house...and at night...my old man used to lock up the front door so that me and my sister used to have to come in ‘round, ‘round through the kitchen...and every night...all the time that I stayed home with him...my father used to sit in the kitchen with all the lights out, just smoke a cigarette...drink beer, my mother used to sit in the...front room with all the lights out, just the TV on...so if you came in around, if you came in around ten or eleven o’clock at night, it wasn’t too bad...’cause he hadn’t been sitting there too long...but if me and my sister came in around...one or two, after my Pop’d been sitting there for a while...he’d always be a little drunk and wanna stop me and...talk to me about something, there was always something on his mind...first he’d start to ask me how I was doing in school, how things was going, if I was happy in there ...then he’d start to ask me why I was living the way I was, why I was out so late, who I was hanging around with...pretty soon we’d be screaming at each other...my mother’d be running in from the front room trying to keep us from fighting with each other...I’d be running out the, running out the backdoor, telling him...telling him how it was my life, I could do what I wanted to do...”
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, intro to “It’s My Life”**

“Alright…this is for the Kid…Kid Leo, wherever he may be…”
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, intro to “Thunder Road”**

“(Someone yells out a request)…Ah, we’ll get to that, we’ll get to that…”
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, intro to “She’s the One”**

“This is for you, Cleveland…”
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, intro to “Born to Run”**

“(Some girl’s yelling loudly)(chuckles) My mom must be there… alright, Band…”
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, intro to “When You Walk in the Room”**

“That’s The Searchers…”
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, after “When You Walk in the Room”**

“Here’s a new song…(someone yells out a request) we’ll get to that …(?)…well, well…alright…”
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, intro to “Frankie”**

“This is for all the folks who were coming down to see us when we first came to town down at the Agora…and, uh…here, out of John Carroll* (crowd cheers)(?)…” //[* Perhaps refers to people who came to attend a gig in Cleveland on June 3, 1974 after a gig that was supposed to take place at Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, PA, on May 25, 1974 was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.]//
 * 08.04.76 Cleveland, OH, intro to “Growin’ Up”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//